Jim Pessek with an old Red Owl logo sign , one of the hundreds of items he has collected and hopes to display in a museum in a former Red Owl grocery store in Stewart, MN. Credit ...

matchbooks and two solid blue neck ties with a small Red Owl logo on them. "They're selling the same tie for $189 on eBay," he said. "I know a guy who has a grocery store set up in his barn.

LEROY — Not many grocery stores can claim they’ve been open for nearly 80 years, and even fewer stores can carry the Red Owl name. Brownlow’s Red Owl Grocery Store in LeRoy has been serving ...

Remember Red Owl? Its logo, depicting the namesake Red Owl, was designed by Hutchinson’s Les Kouba, whose other credits include the Old Dutch windmill and the Coca-Cola logo. Established in ...

In 1988, due to corporate buyouts, that hypnotic Red Owl logo faded from the Minnesota landscape. Today, even parts of the Miracle Mile are scheduled to become dust in the wind.

She found that a now-defunct grocery store chain in the Midwest also shared the name Red Owl, with “amazing old logos.” Now, several paper grocery bags hang high on the wall above where ...

Last week I wrote about an Illinois small business that revives Midwestern old brands on T-shirts et al. At Bygonebrand.com co-owner Keith Watson sells four heritage brands from the Twin Cities ...